June 29, 2023
CSSCR Summer Sessions 2023 Newsletter
From the Director
Summer session has arrived! CSSCR is operating on our reduced summer schedule. We are running our in-person drop-in consulting office in Savery Hall 119 from 9AM to 5PM Monday through Friday. Our Main Office (Savery 110) and drop-in computer lab (Savery 118) are open from 9AM to 5PM. And our two computer classroom labs are open during these times for reservations per usual.
We are fully in-person but are still providing access to online consulting during the hours from 9AM to 5PM — just send a note describing your problem/request to CSSCR@uw.edu. And, in addition, this summer we are providing some online service from 5pm-7pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday…just send a note to CSSCR_evening@uw.edu describing your problem and we will set up a consult.
Summer Quarter we will offer a limited set of in-person workshops (see list below). These workshops are generally of an introductory nature and designed to get you started on a variety of statistical software. Registration for the workshops is provided below.
Hope you also get to enjoy a bit of summer along with your research and course work!
Best regards,
Jerry Herting
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CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Summer Quarter 2023
***Workshops are listed in the order of the dates they are delivered***
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Introduction to R using R Studio
Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The workshop will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
- Instructor: Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
- Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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Data Wrangling in R
Description: This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R/RStudio.
- Instructor: Victoria Sass, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
- Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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Introduction to Qualitative Analysis using ATLAS.ti
Description: This workshop provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, covering basic terminology and functionality of the program. This will include importing text documents, coding and annotating documents, and exploring relationships through analysis and query tools. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti
- Instructor: Baishakhi Basu, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023
- Time: 2:30pm -3:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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Introduction to R using R Studio
Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The workshop will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
- Instructor: Steven Karceski, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Friday, July 21, 2023
- Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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Basic Graphics and Data Visualization in R
Description: This CSSCR workshop introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs and visualization graphs in R. Topics covered will include basic plotting functions (e.g. histograms, scatter plots), production of multi-panel graphs, and various means of exporting graphs to other presentation packages. A basic user level of R / RStudio is assumed.
- Instructor: Zhaowen Guo, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Monday, July 24, 2023
- Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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Introduction to QGIS
Description: This workshop will provide a basic overview of foundational concepts in Geographic Information Systems. Topics include data acquisition and management, geoprocessing tools, and simple cartographic displays. For this brief analysis we will be working exclusively with vector datasets.
- Instructor: Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Thursday, July 27, 2023
- TIme: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
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If you have questions or problems registering please send a note to CSSCR@uw.edu.
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New and Recent Data at CSSCR
- NEW DATA:
- 2020 Census 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) for US
- 2020 Census 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) for WA
- 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) Summary File for WA
- 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) Summary File for US
- 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) PUMS for WA
- 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) PUMS for US
- RECENT DATA:
- 2021 ACS 1-Year Summary File for WA
- 2021 ACS 1-Year Summary File for US
- 2021 ACS 1-Year PUMS for WA
- 2021 ACS 1-Year PUMS for US
Also see news regarding data availability for Census 2020 at our website under Data Archive Decennial Census http://depts.washington.edu/csscr/census/
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ICPSR access at CSSCR
CSSCR maintains the UW membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). All members of the UW community have direct access to ICPSR’s data archive of over 9,900 studies. Please contact us (csscr@uw.edu) if you have questions or need more information about using this resource for accessing data or adding your data to the ICPSR repository. ICPSR new data releases and other news can be found here.
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The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) is an interdepartmental computer center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. CSSCR provides facilities and consulting support for computing activity related to teaching and research at the University.
Hours of Operation
CSSCR is an in-person service!
Drop in In-Person Consulting (Savery 119) — no appointment needed just stop on by!
Summer Hours Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
If you prefer an online meeting during the above times…simply e-mail csscr@uw.edu with your question/problem and we will arrange a Zoom meeting or answer your questions via e-mail.
NOTE: Summer Evening on-line consulting is available T,W & Th from 5PM-7PM just send a request to csscr_evening@uw.edu.
Main office and other services (Savery 110)
Main office is open Monday-Friday 9AM-12PM and 1PM-5PM — Please send queries to csscr@uw.edu.
We are closed weekends and for all University holidays.
Given summer staff vacations we may experience some periodic changes in our main office hours.
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Contact Us:
Center for Social Science Computation & Research
University of Washington
110 Savery Hall
Box 353345
Seattle, Washington 98195 U.S.A.
(206) 543-8110 csscr@uw.edu http://csscr.washington.edu
If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, 543-8924 (V/TDD). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services requesting academic Accommodations, please present the letter to Jerald Herting at CSSCR so we may discuss the necessary classroom accommodations.
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